The Internal Pathways that Condition University Entrepreneurship in Latin America: An Institutional Approach

Guerrero, Maribel; Urbano, David; Gajón, Eduardo

doi:10.1108/s1048-473620140000024004

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“…Empirical studies on accelerators to date have been limited and the delivery of programs and support is over a short period of time (Pauwels et al ). With respect to our results about accelerators, these may be explained by the maturity of ideas, as university accelerators tend to be more geared toward offering support during the high‐growth stage of start‐ups (Guerrero, Urbano, and Gajón ). Therefore, a major structural challenge behind the effectiveness of such mechanisms is their inclusion within functionally structured universities—across departments/campuses—(Ochs, Watkins, and Boothe ).…”

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“…From this perspective, any entrepreneurial action demands feasibility (what can be achieved in the way it is envisioned) and desirability (whether its achievement will accomplish the reason for seeking it) (McMullen and Shepherd 2006). Extant studies have revealed that most university students consider it desirable to create new firms even when they do not have a positive perception of the feasibility (Guerrero, Rialp, and Urbano 2008;Guerrero, Urbano, and Gaj on 2014;Shinnar, Pruett, and Toney 2009). Universities give priority attention to strategies that may be useful to create an entrepreneurial environment and reinforce the students' ability to succeed (Gately and Cunningham 2014a;Heriot and Simpson 2007;Pittaway and Hannon 2008;Shane 2004;Wright, Birley, and Mosey 2004) and, in this environment, the graduates' involvement in start-up actions will depend on their risk aversion and their expectations (Arenius and Minniti 2005); their education, experience and skills (Bates 1990;Becker 1964); and their access to the necessary resources/capabilities to develop entrepreneurial initiatives (Audretsch et al 2002;Audretsch, Lehmann and Warning 2005;Baker, Gedajlovic, and Lubatkin 2005;Cunningham and Harney 2006;Klapper, Amit, and Guill en 2010;Philpott et al 2011).…”

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“…Extant studies have explored why some universities in developed countries create more start‐ups than others (Di Gregorio and Shane ; O'Shea, Chugh, and Allen ; Shane ; Wright, Birley, and Mosey ), but only a few studies have analyzed entrepreneurial universities in transitional economies and of the majority of them have not examined graduate entrepreneurship (Guerrero and Urbano ; Guerrero, Urbano, and Gajón ). In this regard, if we compare developed economies and transitional economies, we observed some similarities and differences.…”

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Individual and organizational entrepreneurial activity varies across regions/countries. Universities have increasingly become knowledge‐intensive environments that support entrepreneurship. Extant studies demonstrate the need to explore graduate start‐ups using different levels of analysis an across economies. This paper explores individual and university determinants of graduates' start‐ups creation from a multi‐campus entrepreneurial university in a transition economy. A proposed model was tested with 11,569 graduates from 30 campuses across 21 Mexican cities. Results show that specific individual determinants are the most relevant determinant of graduate entrepreneurship as well as that some university mechanisms (incubators and research parks) have limited impact on graduates' entrepreneurship.

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“…In general, university support is highly effective in the creation and survival of knowledge-based enterprises (McAdam and McAdam 2008) because sharing unique sets of valuable and imperfectly imitable resources (financial and physical) and capabilities (human and organizational) (Kirby et al 2011). However, in emerging countries, universities faces numerous limitations in quality and quantity of those resources and capabilities (Guerrero et al 2014b). Nevertheless, universities are still key pillars in government efforts to reinforce the innovation ecosystem via subsidies designed to make science more relevant to industry's needs (Cohen et al 2002;Herrera et al 2016;.…”

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Innovation practices in emerging economies: Do university partnerships matter?

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Enterprises' resources and capabilities determine their ability to achieve competitive advantage. In this regard, the key innovation challenges that enterprises face are liabilities associated with their age and size, and the entry barriers imposed on them. In this line, a growing number of enterprises are starting to implement innovation practices in which they employ both internal/external flows of knowledge in order to explore/exploit innovation in collaboration with commercial or scientific agents. Within this context, universities play a significant role providing fertile knowledge-intensive environments to support the exploration and exploitation of innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, especially in emerging economies, where governments have created subsidies to promote enterprise innovation through compulsory university partnerships. Based on these ideas, the purpose of this exploratory research is to provide a better understanding about the role of universities on enterprises' innovation practices in emerging economies. More concretely, in the context of Mexico, we explored the enterprises' motivations to collaborate with universities in terms of innovation purposes (exploration and exploitation) or alternatives to access to public funds (compulsory requirement of being involved in a university partnership).

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“…The university has higher entrepreneurship outputs when compared with other universities from emerging countries. Unicamp's internal entrepreneurial university pathways have a positive effect on students' start-up actions (Guerrero, Urbano, & Gajón, 2014).…”

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Effects of Entrepreneurial Characteristics and University Environment on Entrepreneurial Intention

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ResumoO estudo teve como objetivo investigar os efeitos das características empreendedoras e do ambiente universitário na intenção empreendedora do estudante universitário. Foi desenvolvido e validado um modelo que considera o ambiente universitário, a autoeficácia e assumir riscos como influenciadores diretos da intenção empreendedora, e as características empreendedoras como influenciadoras da autoeficácia. A metodologia empregada foi quantitativa e os dados foram analisados por meio de Modelos de Equações Estruturais com a técnica de Mínimos Quadrados Parciais (PLS-SEM). A amostra utilizada foi composta por 287 estudantes universitários do último ano dos cursos de graduação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Os resultados indicam que a intenção empreendedora dos estudantes é influenciada pelo ambiente universitário, pela atitude em relação a assumir riscos e pela autoeficácia. A autoeficácia, por sua vez, é influenciada pelas características de planejador, liderança e inovador dos estudantes. A pesquisa colabora com reflexões complementares aos estudos sobre empreendedorismo, apresentando um modelo para avaliação das características empreendedoras dos estudantes e do contexto empreendedor das instituições de ensino, e comprovando que existe uma relação positiva entre o contexto e a educação empreendedora com a intenção empreendedora dos estudantes.Palavras-chave: intenção empreendedora; ambiente universitário; perfil empreendedor. AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the effects of entrepreneurial and university environment characteristics on the entrepreneurial intention of the undergraduate student. We developed a model that considers the university environment, self-efficacy, and risk-taking as direct influencers of entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial characteristics as influencers of self-efficacy. We employed quantitative methodology and data were analyzed by Structural Equation Models using the Partial Least Squares (PLS-SEM) technique. The sample consisted of 287 students in the final year of undergraduate programs at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). The results indicate that the entrepreneurial intention of students is influenced by the university environment and the attitude toward risk-taking and self-efficacy. Self-efficacy, in turn, is influenced by student characteristics regarding planning, leadership, and innovation. The research corroborates with complementary reflections on entrepreneurship studies, showing a model for evaluation of entrepreneurial characteristics of students and of the entrepreneurial context in educational institutions, and proving that there is a positive relationship between the context, entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention of the students.

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The Internal Pathways that Condition University Entrepreneurship in Latin America: An Institutional Approach

Cited by 15 publications

References 62 publications

Determinants of Graduates' Start-Ups Creation across a Multi-Campus Entrepreneurial University: The Case of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Determinants of Graduates' Start-Ups Creation across a Multi-Campus Entrepreneurial University: The Case of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Innovation practices in emerging economies: Do university partnerships matter?

Effects of Entrepreneurial Characteristics and University Environment on Entrepreneurial Intention

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